Beyond 200 OK | Pricilla Bilavendran | Testμ 2022 | LambdaTest 🚀

About The Talk

Knowledge of the importance of API Testing, challenges, and best practices in API Testing

Learning the types of API tests along with the basic performance and security tests

Deep dive into the validations performed

Develop Test Suite and strategies for API automation

Utilize parameterization to increase coverage

About The Speaker

Pricilla Bilavendran is a passionate test engineer working with Billennium IT Services (M) Sdn - Malaysia, with more than a decade of experience in quality assurance. She has experience with testing flavors like functional, EDI, ETL, automation, and API testing. She is a Postman Supernova and speaks at various events regarding APIs and Postman.

She is passionate about cloud computing and is an “AWS Community Builder”. She strongly advocates for diversity and inclusion and is one of the global ambassadors of WomenTech Network. She is good at telling stories and conveying things in a simple, funny, and witty manner. She believes in coexistence and harmony.

Key Topics Covered

Introduction to API Testing: Priscilla introduces API testing by discussing its significance in the current tech landscape, highlighting that APIs are everywhere and play a crucial role in connecting different software applications.

Types of API Testing: She delves into the various types of API testing, such as validation testing, functional testing, integration testing, security testing, performance testing, reliability testing, API documentation testing, and regression testing. Each type is explained with the analogy of a coffee machine to make the concepts more relatable and easier to understand.

**API Security:**The talk further explores API security, outlining the top 10 API security vulnerabilities as per the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). Priscilla emphasizes the importance of being aware of these vulnerabilities to improve the security of APIs.

API Performance: The discussion on API performance underscores the importance of having high-performing APIs for the success of applications. She explains how performance testing for APIs should focus on stability, scalability, and speed.

API Test Automation: Priscilla touches on the advantages of automating API tests, stating that it leads to more efficient and high-quality APIs, reduces costs, increases test coverage, and is easier to maintain compared to manual testing.

Conclusion: The session wraps up with a Q&A section where Priscilla addresses questions related to cloud infrastructure's influence on API performance and security, recommendations for testing standard and custom APIs, and the impact of AI and ML in identifying security threats in APIs.

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